Yoga For Men
Ashtanga Yoga: My 90-Day Journey from Skeptic to Convert Let me be straight with you. My concept of fitness involved the use of iron, grunting and a stopwatch. Yoga was an activity I considered… supplemental. A cool-down. Perhaps it is a stretch after a real workout. I believed it to be singing and performing gentle …
Yoga for Weight Loss at Home Being frank, I was unconvinced initially when I thought about doing Yoga in my own house as a beginner in order to lose weight. I imagined light stretching and deep breathing – not the dripping sweat and burning fat exercises that I had related to becoming fit. Similar to …
Finding My Fit: A No-BS Look at Weight Loss Retreats That Deliver Let’s be honest. I have had an up and down relationship with the scale. I have experimented with the fad diets, the intense exercise memberships that I never attended, and the undefined possibility of merely eating better. I would make some gains, and …
From Wobble to Warrior: How I Finally Mastered Chaturanga Dandasana I used to think Chaturanga Dandasana was a test of brute force. I’d watch others glide through it, muscles rippling, and assume my failure was a lack of raw strength. So I pushed harder. I gritted my teeth and forced my way down, only to …
From Wrecked to Relaxed: How I Tamed the Chaos with Kids Yoga Let me be straight with you. I’m not a yoga guru. I’m a dad. I had a concept of exercise that was to lift weights or run. The definition of exercise that my kid thought of was to bang into the walls every …
Yoga for Weight Loss Let’s be honest. When the majority of guys have the thought of weight loss, they visualize grunting in the weight room, sweating in a run, or dripping in a spin routine. Yoga? Flexibility and calming down, that, right? That’s exactly what I thought. However, when I reached a plateau because of …
Yoga Poses For 2: Build Strength & Trust Together I believed that partner yoga was about chanting and placing hands. I was wrong. My buddy persuaded me to do it after I crashed somewhere in a savage plateau during my training. It is a no-nonsense account of how practicing Yoga Poses for 2 made me …
I break down the Is Yoga a Sport? debate Let me be straight with you. A few years ago, if you’d asked me, “Is yoga a sport?” I would have laughed. My idea of a sport involved a ball, a scoreboard, and a lot of sweating and swearing. Yoga was what my girlfriend did to …
Yoga vs. Pilates Let’s be real. I was stuck in a fitness rut. My exercise consisted of the expected cycle of weight lifting and half-baked running. I guess it was working, but I would rather have had it as a chore. I was not feeling smoother; my old back situation was just beginning to moan …
My Yoga Six Review: A Skeptic’s 4-Month Case Study Let’s be real. For years, my idea of yoga was a room full of people chanting “om” while contorting into impossible positions. It seemed… soft. I was a weights guy, a run-till-you-puke guy. My fitness was loud, grindy, and measured in pounds on a bar. Flexibility …